| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: she would not now be expected to assume the dead woman's personality.
True, she had not, as had been arranged, reached the Silver Sphinx
at eleven, but there were a hundred excuses she could give to
account for her being late in keeping the appointment so that she
had arrived just in time, say, to see Danglar dash wildly in pursuit
of a woman who had jumped into the car that she was supposed to take!
The garret! The garret again - and Gypsy Nan! Her surroundings
seemed to become a blank to her; her actions to be prompted by some
purely mechanical sense. She was conscious only that finally, after
an interminable time, she was in New York again; and after that,
long, long after that, dressed as Gypsy Nan, she was stumbling up
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: hybridized, as has occurred following certain misguided
efforts in the South Fork of the Kern.
So far as I know but one attempt has been made
to transplant these fish. About five or six years ago
a man named Grant carried some in pails across to a
small lake near at hand. They have done well, and
curiously enough have grown to a weight of from one
and a half to two pounds. This would seem to show
that their small size in Volcano Creek results entirely
from conditions of feed or opportunity for development,
and that a study of proper environment might
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